Jan. 8, 2026

The Secret Why You're Failing... And It's NOT Your Fault - with Dr. Alain Salas

The Secret Why You're Failing... And It's NOT Your Fault - with Dr. Alain Salas
The Secret Why You're Failing... And It's NOT Your Fault - with Dr. Alain Salas
Thrive After 45™
The Secret Why You're Failing... And It's NOT Your Fault - with Dr. Alain Salas

Have you ever felt burned out while chasing a dream? Dr. Alain Salas, the "Mind Clearing Doctor," was living the ultimate success - a thriving practice, sailing in the South of France - but inside, he was overwhelmed and exhausted. This led to a personal collapse that hit his health (getting sick with an early stage of colon cancer!), his marriage (divorce), and his business. Talk about everything crashing down at once! Instead of staying defeated, he went inward, and wha...

Have you ever felt burned out while chasing a dream?

Dr. Alain Salas, the "Mind Clearing Doctor," was living the ultimate success - a thriving practice, sailing in the South of France - but inside, he was overwhelmed and exhausted.

This led to a personal collapse that hit his health (getting sick with an early stage of colon cancer!), his marriage (divorce), and his business.

Talk about everything crashing down at once!

Instead of staying defeated, he went inward, and what he discovered became his powerful three-step system for clearing limiting beliefs and creating success without the burnout.

We dive deep into the mind-body connection, why having a personal "mission in life" is the only true way to avoid feeling lost, and why failure isn't really a thing - it's just a lesson you haven't learned yet.

We also talk about a core concept he uses: the alignment of your Thought (the how), your Emotion/Heart (the why), and your Action (the what).

This is the part that blew my mind: Dr. Salas explains that our conscious mind (where we focus all our effort to solve problems) is only 5–10% of our power, while the subconscious mind is a massive 90–95%!

If you’re struggling to reach a goal, you’re trying to move a mountain with a tiny fraction of your mind.

This conversation is a must-listen if you're ready to stop using only 5% of your power and finally understand how to get that full alignment.

You'll hear us talk about:

  • How his personal collapse led to his life-altering Mind Clearing system.
  • Why understanding your life's mission eliminates the feeling of "no motivation."
  • The difference between "victim mode" and being a "creator" of your reality.
  • His three simple steps (delete, download, manifest) for transforming limiting beliefs into empowering ones.
  • A beautiful visual of what "awakening" feels like when you finally clear the clouds in your sky.

Find Dr. Alain Salas and his work here:

  • Website: http://www.themindclearing.com/


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0:00 Hello, and welcome to today's episode of Thrive after 45. I am Denise Drink, Walter heart whisperer, midlife mirror and mentor. And every week I am honored to share energy and space with inspiring guests whose stories reflect so many possibilities of thriving beyond 45 together. Will uncover the whispers of the heart, the power of midlife transformation, and the wisdom that fuels expansion. What happens when the very life you built with passion starts burning you out from the inside?

0:41 Today's guest knows that answer better than most. Dr. Ela, the Mind Clearing Doctor spent years living the dream. Sailing the South of France, building a thriving practice in the States and serving thousands. But behind the success was exhaustion, overwhelm, and ultimately a personal collapse that touched every area of his life, health, marriage, and business. Instead of staying down, he turned inward and what he discovered became a life altering three-step system now used by over 4,267 clients across the US and Europe to break limiting beliefs.

1:30 Think clearly. Create success without burnout. He is a number one bestselling author, a chiropractic physician of 29 years, and the creator of the Goal and Success Clearing Method, helping ambitious entrepreneurs make more sales, achieve their goals, and grow their business predictably. And Dr. Celeste has also developed. The body clearing that helps release subconscious blocks, causing mind body imbalances, and addresses holistic chronic pain symptoms and diseases. I cannot wait to get dig into this conversation today with you, Dr.

2:12 SOIs. Welcome to the show. Well, thank you Donis for the wonderful introduction and I can tell that you know your subject, right? And so, um, I really love the way you introduced my work and so thank you very much and of course, let's do this. I'm super, like I told you, I'm super, you know, happy to be here and also, you know, to, to get going with you. Yes. So let's, let's go back on a little bit of your journey and help the audience understand if there was a moment when everything came crashing down. Was there a moment that you realized that your success was actually costing you your actual life?

2:59 Well, I don't, I don't know if he is, I'm sorry. I don't know if there's the moment's really that's, but there's lots of outside circumstances, you know, like, uh, within a year ending up divorcing. Right. And I had a daughter, so when you divorce and there's a kid involved, it's never a handshake for sure. Mm-hmm. And I got sick with, uh, AERs with early stage of colon cancer. So here I am, you know, you have to understand the kinda practice that I had done, Denise was. Uh, to tell you, okay. Um, to assess and address your chemical stress, your internal chemistry. And so I will tell my patient what to do to avoid chronic disease like cancer. And here I am, I'm getting sick, right?

3:39 And, and of course, because of, uh, me divorcing and, you know, I, I started to get depressed. So my practice went from, you know, uh, thriving to failing. Yeah, and so just wanted to find solution for my problem. It happened that I'm a doctor and the only things that I never really go deep into was the mind. It sounds crazy, right? Because the mind and body, uh, and body clearing is so important to me, and so I had to dig and and figure it out. Okay, what is the mind and how do we. Function, you know, with a mind body connection and, and how do we, how, how can we be successful? How can we avoid.

4:20 All v, you know, uh, relationship failure. How can we avoid v the, um, disease? How can we avoid, you know, um, uh, our financial failure, right? And basically that's what started it. Uh, I talked to so many people, not just women, but people in general who hit these walls, right? And all of a sudden it's almost like. They can't breathe. They don't know what to do. They don't know where to go, how to move. How on earth do you begin to unpack when you are so far down in the depths of despair?

5:07 Well, there are several factors that are important. Uh, you have to understand that, um, my mission in life when I was, uh, sail in south of France has been given to me. And that was basically to keep it like in its core to help people via healing, right? So that's why I went to America and studied chiropractic. I was like, uh, 30, yeah, 30 years old, and things like that. So that's how I changed my life. Um, it's very important to know what is your mission in life. Hmm. Because we talk about success and failure, but does failure truly exist? I don't believe so. I don't, I don't, I don't believe there's such a thing as a failure, like what we call failure.

5:47 It's our judgment in a way, but through our, um, our difficulties, through our, our challenges, that's how we truly, we can create and born from the darkness. You see, when a, when a woman carry a baby, she carry that in the darkness. And so that's how, that's how we can create, you know, and, and, and life is always a rhythm, you know, like, like if you hear the world Disney stories or they will be, they will marry and be happy ever after. It's not possible, as we know. It doesn't exist because there's always rhythm, because everything in life from the attom.

6:28 To, uh, to our, um, perception of reality is a wave with ups and down. It doesn't mean that it's good and bad. It's simply positive and negative and positive and negative. And so when you understand that, that's very important, that you will always have ups and downs and they all serve their purpose. Oh, I love that, number one. Number two. And number two, you wanna make sure that you are not in a victim mode, because otherwise you're not gonna learn anything. So what is being on the victim mode? It's like blaming on the outside world. For example, in my divorce, I, I could have said, oh, this is all my wife fault because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

7:10 Right? And so you never learn. You never learn. Having that mindset right, because it's ne you cannot look like you say. Deep weave in and introspect and see what the heck happened and truly understand that you're actually creating your reality in a way. Mm-hmm. That your higher self is designing that for your own good, for you to become a better and a better person. So when you understand that ultimately you're not a victim, but you're a creator, instead of saying, oh, why this is happening to me, always you just saying, okay, what is the lesson? What do I have to learn from that experience?

7:51 Yeah. And when you've got those two criteria, but you know, on top of that, what your mission. In life is, there's no such a thing as retirement. There's no such a thing. Yeah, I, I get. I have no motivation in life. Right. Because you know what you are wired to do. You know what you are wired to be. And if you are a truth seeker, you know, there's no way that you can sit on your couch and watching TV and getting numb and becoming like a zombie, you know, and denying life even when you are older. Age is only a number, I guarantee that, right? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. When you talk about, um.

8:32 Being the creator, I love to talk about through the lens of curiosity, that lesson that we get to learn if we approach it through a lens of curiosity instead of why it? Why me? Oh, here we go again. Because we create our own reality, don't we? Just like you shared. Yeah. Love that. I agree with that. What we'll add on that, it's like when you do like technique. And clearing, for example, when you become more at peace with yourself and your heart open up, you know much more what's happening. You are more like the observer. So emotionally you are not too much engaged with what's happening to you.

9:17 So it's better, it's, it's easier to see whatever lesson. It's easier to understand really the purpose of what's going on. In that specific experience. Right, right. And so that's why, you know, the man clearing, uh, was so important to me that because I treat myself that, uh, because it's, it's so important, you know, to, to understand the how, the why. The what. And so from that I created like, um, a philosophy in a way since, um, in, since everything is vibration, everything vibrate, we just cannot see it. But all at home, all life is in constant vibration. So vibration is a wave, right?

9:58 So you've got the positive aspect, which is the light, which is more about the mind and your thought. And after, at the cross line of the zero point. Okay. That's our heart reside. So you've got your thought. Yeah. You've got your, uh, mind, you've got your heart, and at the end you've got, uh, your. What you create, which is your belly darkness. So the way creation, you know, when we know when your purpose is, it's your why. Your heart is in your why. You know, when you ask the question, am I doing what? Am I being a healer?

10:39 What I'm being a doctor, what? That's the why. Why for example, as a, as a entrepreneur, I want$1 million because you know, I will ask people, okay, what do you want? Right? It's a very simple question, but sometimes they don't know. Yes. And sometimes the answer is not obvious. So you need to dig, you know, and they tell me what a successful practice because blah, blah, blah, my why, and you start to dig and go to the essence. For example, my why. Is to help people, period. It's very simple, right? The wise, the wise are always simple. And so when you know your wife in life, that's your heart talking and your heart is the master organ of your body, I, I should say the master organ and the master mind of your body.

11:26 Love that. That make sense? Yes, it does. And so how do you take what's in your heart and not have your mind fight it? Well, because they serve different purpose. You know, like I said, your heart is your why, right? The, your, uh, your, um, mind is the how you do things. Mm-hmm. The heart is why do you do things and your beliefs, what are you doing, your creation. You know, that's how it works. So when you are fault, your feeling, which is your heart, right, of your emotion. Yeah. And your action are aligned. That's what you're talking about.

12:07 When they are aligned, when your how, your why, and your what is a line, that's how you're gonna be able to be unstoppable and accomplish so much more easily what you're designed to do and your goal. Love that. And then when you get off the alignment. You get nudges or clubs to the head to help you realize, Nope, you're going off. Does that, does that happen? Yes. Yes, of course. But also, when you are not in your alignment, you're not gonna be, it is gonna be hard to reach your goal, right? Yes. You're gonna have doubt. Yeah. Right? And so that's what doubt is. For example, if I said, oh, oh yeah, today I decided I'm gonna start a diet.

12:52 So that's in my thought, right? Yeah. I'm gonna start a diet. Yeah. And after emotionally, I'm say, oh, last time and I started a diet, you know, I was successful by gained the weight back. So my emotion and my feeling are not aligned with my thought. So maybe I'm not gonna take even any action, or if I take action, I'm gonna be easily discouraged. And so when you fought your emotion. And your action and align, that's how you're ready to accomplish anything you want, I mean. Right, right. And with your experience with the thousands you've worked with and continue to support in their journeys, do you notice that this alignment happens more strongly, more frequently as you continue to help them with their clearing?

13:49 Oh yeah, because, um, what happened, for example, even with one treatment, we can clear that, right? So in the case of a diet, for example, I took that example like this, right? Yeah. So you fault, you show, but your fault by your emotions. So we. We'll do the mind clearing. We've got three step, it's, it's kind of when you compare the mind to a computer, it's kind of the same thing, right? Yeah. So your brain will be the hard drive, the software will be like your program and this program are not. You have been programmed all your life, Donis, you have been programmed. I've been programmed. Everybody watching that program has been programmed. Yeah. But it's at the subconscious level, meaning that we're not truly aware of.

14:30 Mm-hmm. And with the acquire whose program? Pro program mainly from age zero to seven years old because we, um, uh, basically, um, assume that everything is the out. World is the truth. And so when you assume one thing, uh, a a few time, it become a program in the subconscious mind. And this program, we've got positive programming. It's kind of like when your mind is working for you and not against you, right? And you've got the negative programming, which is when your mind is working against you. Mm-hmm. And instead of for you. So it's basically this alignment when you've got this alignment. When you've got what we call empowering belief, which is the positive programming, everything flow, everything become easier.

15:15 Right. And when you've got what we call the limiting belief, which is the negative programming, right? Well, that's why we got that. That's why, you know, we can sometime not even reach our goal because there's a program and it's not our fault. It's a program that will deny us. And so the mind clearing is designed for any program. When you've got a program in your. A computer that doesn't work for you, what you gonna do, right? Number one, you're gonna delete that program. Number two, you're gonna go, uh, to the store and download a program that works for you. And number three, you're going to, in the screen of life, you're gonna see the outcome, the desire, outcome that you want.

15:56 You're gonna be happy with the result. And so. Those are the three step of a mind clearing. You delete what you don't want. You download what you want, and you make sure that you're gonna manifest or create that into your life. Amazing. And that's it. And so when you understand how the mind works, that is basically more at the subconscious level, meaning you are not aware of, just to give you a little bit nugget. Yeah. You know, your mind is conscious mind. That is basically your ity who you think you are, what you are aware, your, uh, thought, your emotion, your action, and, and, um, yeah, all that. And so, and your subconscious mind, which we have been doing in your, in your life from age zero to now, and where this program are also, you know, all your skill as an entrepreneur or any things that you require skill in your life are stored in your subconscious mind.

16:51 All the things in your body that hap happen automatically without you thinking about it like your. Heartbeat, like your, uh, breathing right, like your digestion are coming for your subconscious mind. And just to give you an idea mm-hmm. According to who you read, your conscious mind is only five to 10% of your mind, and your subconscious mind is 90 to 95% of your mind. And yet. When you've got any challenges, any problem that you wanna resolve, what you're gonna do, you're gonna focus on your conscious mind, meaning you're, you're gonna use only five or 10% of your mind power. Amazing. And that's a problem, the big problem, right?

17:33 So. You as an in, uh, as a support to tap into the subconscious mind. Can people tap into their own subconscious mind? Or is it something that's better done by the likes of somebody like you who knows how to do it in a certain way that actually accesses it To me, the holy grail of healing and manifestation is when you tap into your own subscriptions. Um, um, when I help people, I help them to heal themself. I help them to manifest themselves. So we visualize, for example, to have a more, like a practical sense of the way it's happening.

18:17 Sure, yeah. Well, you visualize, you know what don't want and I created a program. And so you visualize yourself, um, in, in a context like, okay, wait, for example, boom, you visualize yourself, right? Yep. And so, uh, after we're going to delete. Uh, we're gonna delete that picture is a delete program that is customized to you, that I give you the technology, but you are going to send that program to what I call the past. You, you in that picture. Right? Okay. And so that's your own picture because it's your own subconscious mind. I don't know what is your subconscious mind for whatever things you don't want. I mean, only you can have an idea, right? Yeah. And so that's why it's so cool, because I'm just on your guide guiding you.

19:01 To do the work, um, by yourself, basically, because that's the only way it can really truly work and go to the cause of your problem. Because when you've got a problem, you need to know two things done is yeah, to make sure that you don't have any problem anymore, that you move on, that even you don't even think that problem. You need to know what's causing your problem, right? And number two, you need to know how to fix it. Right? And this sounds so simple, right? But if you listen on any, every decision that you make and you say, okay, is because of my problem? Yeah. And is it truly the way how to fix it? That will prevent you to go to some, to take some path that are not good for you, or will take more time and they are not really, uh, the fast way, the fastest way, and the more, uh, comprehensive way to heal yourself or to, uh, to transform yourself.

19:57 Amazing. Amazing. Makes perfect sense. Especially when you talk about the 5% and 90. 95%. Yes. Huge. Huge. It's a no brainer. Ta-da. I love that. Amazing. You continue to stay motivated to help people. Why, what is keeping you in that full alignment? Well, I just, I just describe it, you know, my thought. Yeah. My emotion and my, uh, and my action and behavior are all aligned, and, and if or not, I will treat myself perfect.

20:45 Yeah. So, and also that's number two, actually. Number one is like, you need to know what is your mission in life. Yeah. You know, I, like I said, there's no really success and failure, but to me, there will be one failure. It's just not to know that. Yeah. Right. And again, it's not about, you know, oh, I want this. Okay, why do you want this? And you want to, it's called digging. So you want to dig. And there's also technique that I use with, uh, my, uh, um, uh, my customer, my patient depends what I do with them. Right? Yeah. And so, uh, we just go to a space. Like an alternate reality in a way. And it sounds like all voodoo. It's not, it's like a state of mind that you, it's less, uh, filtered by your, uh, ego.

21:29 It's less filtered by that conscious mind, right? And you can tap into, and whatever picture comes to your mind, but can really help you to, to know really what you. Well, you were designed too because we all design, we all have a mission in life. I want people to understand that. Mm-hmm. We all have, if you've got a spirit and a soul, you have a mission in life. There's a reason why you are on Herf when you find out what the reason is and can be different. You know, for me it's helping people. For you, maybe it's different. Sure, it doesn't matter. But when you know that after, you cannot not doing it. You just have to do it and becomes, and what if you supposed to be working is not working.

22:09 Yeah. It's accomplishing your mission. It's serving humanity by serving yourself. Be the change that you want to see in the world, which is brings us back to the whole foundation of this show because we do what we are going to be doing for you by you because of you, your mission, not based on outside what we've thought all along. Because as Dr. Sala said, we're using 5%. If we're using just that part of the mind, we're missing out and that's why. Our listeners love to listen to our show and thank you listeners because of these nuggets that are alive and well and not talked about.

22:58 So thank you for your time today, Dr. Alah. So wonderful. So deep. So rich. Oh, thank you so much more. That was my pleasure. So much more. There's more if you want. Oh, there and, and absolutely. And the beautiful thing is that in our show notes, we have access. We will have the information that you need in order to access the brilliance because Dr. Lan uses. 100% of his brain, not just the 5%. And we want our listeners to be able to increase their capacity for you by you because of you and for no other reason.

23:39 Find your why, which is not from the 5% of your brain, but from that full alignment that Dr. Alan has talked about. Are there any, you've shared so much. Is there anything that you would love to leave our audience with today? A nugget that you just wanna, A seed to plant? Yes. Yay. Of course, of course. So let's zoom out. Let's zoom out, right? Yeah. And so imagine that there's the sun and the sun. Represent awareness, represent the diva. I represent whatever you believe about something that is, uh, um, higher vibration than you are.

24:21 After a spark of that sun, we will, uh, uh, create your spirit. And this is all like, you know, for our listener, it's all like pure love, right? It's a, it's, there's non-duality world and after you've got the sky and after you've got our physical, you and me, right? Right. And so some people, the sky, there are so many clouds. Say, they say there's no sun. The sun doesn't exist. I never seen it. I never felt it. And so what was cloud are made of? They are made of whose negative programming with limiting belief. And so when you start to get rid of some. Clouds in your sky, right? Yeah. And you've got less limiting belief. Now you can have a g glimpses at the sun.

25:04 Now you can, you can feel the warmth of the sun. And so you get excited because it's, imagine just pure love. It's, it's so great. And so you get more cloud out of your sky. You have, uh, less limiting belief. And after, at one point, like there's one point here, at one point you realize. You get more and more connected to your spirit and at one point you realize what we call the awakening. Mm-hmm. And you awakened to the idea and to the experience, should I say? Mm-hmm. That you are not on flesh and bone. You are not only five or 10% of your mind. You realize that you are truly a spirit living your human being experience.

25:45 And that's a game changer because after that moment, you cannot go back. Yeah. You'll be changed forever. Love that. Thank you for that visual. I could see it all as you were speaking. Thank you so much for your time, energy, and expertise today. I loved our conversation for the listeners, if there was anything, multiple things that sparked within you, make sure you follow share, like give us reviews. We wanna get this information out far and wide to help our fellow sisters take care of yourselves, everyone, and again.

26:26 Thank you so much for your time and expertise today, Dr. Ella.